RT Article
T1 Does racial congruence between police agencies and communities reduce racialized police killings of civilians?
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 20
IS 4
SP 665
OP 690
A1 Gaston, Shytierra
A2 Teti, Matthew J.
A2 Sanchez, Matheson
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1796290149
AB In response to highly publicized, controversial police killings of Black Americans, policymakers and advocates have proposed several police reforms, including a recurrent, decades-long demand for police departments to diversify their forces to better match the racial composition of the communities they serve. We draw on a unique police agency-level dataset comprising 1,988 local police agencies and regress measures of police killings of Black, Hispanic, and White Americans from 2013 to 2018 onto racial congruence ratios and other theoretically relevant predictors. The results provide support for the hypothesis, revealing a negative association between racial congruence and police killings among Black and Hispanic victims.
K1 fatal force
K1 Policeorganization
K1 Race and policing
K1 Racialdisparities
K1 Racial representation
K1 Violence
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12567